[Amps] Think about Cycle 24 warnings from NASA... Preventive Steps???

[ANTHONY JAPHA]

Wow!  What is it: a protracted period of low cycles or a monster coming up?
No one knows, which is one reason this hobby is interesting.  I just missed
the 1959 cycle 19 max, and can only wish for another like it.  My guess is
most of us would like that too.  I'd hate to think we've seen the last 10
mtr opening for decades.  

Chances are pretty good that cycle 24 will be somewhere in between, just
like almost every other cycle.  Whatever happens, 
none of the currently available projections are solid enough to get alarmed
at.  Let's keep building and operating the best equipment we can, and keep
the ideas for better and better amps coming.

73,
Tony, N2UN

> [Original Message]
> From: schuetzen <chasm at texas.net>
> To: <Gudguyham at aol.com>
> Cc: <tjjapha at earthlink.net>; <amps at contesting.com>
> Date: 1/28/2008 5:36:08 PM
> Subject: Think about Cycle 24 warnings from NASA...  Preventive Steps???
>
> Gudguyham at aol.com wrote:
> >  
> > In a message dated 1/28/2008 11:12:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> > tjjapha at earthlink.net writes:
> > 
> > Hey all  you birdwatchers out there.  Robins are nice, but how abt. 
finding
> > some sunspots?
> > 73, 
> > Tony,  N2UN
> >  
>
> > Tony, good idea.  Lately there has been a lot of talk about the fact 
that we 
> > are in or have past the full bottom of the cycle.  There is  probably a
fine 
> > line there.  The general consensus is that there are better  days a
comin'.  I 
> > hope that is true.  I will probably be a few years  anyway until the 
> > propagation is anywhere near peak.  We will have to be  ready for the
few openings we 
> > might get this summer on 6 meters.   Lou
>
> better days a coming.. in this case, beware what you wish for...
>
> you all might want to go to
> http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10may_longrange.htm
>
> and read the long range solar forecast from NASA.
> we are coming into a solar max so severe that its like has not been seen 
> since 1958. that is really cranking up about 2010
>
> The next cycle will be #25 and it will be the bicentennial cycle which 
> brought us the mini ice age of 1780 to 1820  -- remember the Potomac R 
> crossing? Napoleon's retreat from Russia?  Potato famine, French 
> changing to wheat from barley or is that v.v. because one would grow in 
> 40 degree high summer temps and the other would not?? don't remember all 
> the details.
> yada....
>
> lots of good info there.  after reading the Forecast, go read the Solar 
> Storm Warning... which is about SCycle #24 which we MAY be in right now.
>
> you can call this an Al Gore style warning but I tend to believe NASA 
> since they try to protect the astronauts on station.
>
> further, what if they are right???  what can we do now to protect our 
> rigs and antennas, etc from an electrical feed superstructure which 
> could possibly be blowing transformers in your neighborhood???  in 1958, 
> they watched auroras in MEXICO!!!
>
> something to think about.
>
> fwiw
> chas.k5dam